Hall v. Bryan
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Exception. — At the trial of this cause the plaintiff proved that Estep Hall died in February, 1876, and that letters testamentary were granted upon his estate by the Orphans’ Court of Anne Arundel County, to the defendant in the same month.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Exception. — At the trial of this cause the plaintiff proved that Estep Hall died in February, 1876, and that letters testamentary were granted upon his estate by the Orphans’ Court of Anne Arundel County, to the defendant in the same month. He then offered in evidence a certified copy of the will of Margaret Thornburgh, of which the following clauses only need be inserted: “Item, I give and bequeath unto my nephew, Henry Webster, his executors, administrators and assigns, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, in trust and confidence that…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, J.
The appellee sued the appellant in an action on the case, in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County.
The plaintiff in the first and second counts of his narr. declares specially to the effect following, viz: that one Margaret Thornburgh in her life time, made her last will, and thereby devised certain funds to one Henry Webster, upon certain trusts, for certain persons therein named, with power to invest and re-invest the same; that the said Webster loaned to the appellant’s testator large sums of money, (a part of said trust funds,) in consideration of the first of which loans, Estep Hall…
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